Question: What is the difference between hypertension and high blood pressure, and what do blood pressure numbers mean? Answer: Well, hypertension and high blood pressure are two terms that are almost used interchangeably. What you have is a number above which you have a defined diagnosis -- at least that's how we tend to do this in medicine.
Stephen Hawking. Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA (/ËstiËvÉn ËhÉËkÉªÅ/; born 8 January 1942) is an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge.
Stephen Hawking has a form of motor neurone disease which causes progressive weakness of muscles in the body. On his website Prof Hawking describes coxing and rowing during his time at Oxford University but gradually becoming more clumsy Photo: REUTERS. By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor. 7:34PM BST 20 Apr 2009.